On a distantly related note: At my school students have to do 80 hours of community service before graduation. Today I heard that one of the opportunities involves fostering kittens (BTW, this is for kids 15 and up). How great is that?

I don’t know what part I love best, the little dude on his back with the paws up, or the fact that when they couldn’t reach a sibling they bit themselves OR mom just sort of standing there, totally still. How could mom be so still in the face of all the cute!? I think I might have tried to crowd surf that much cute!

Those aren’t McSqirmersons, they’re of the genus ‘Squrmel Nermel’. You have to watch out for them, their pink bellies will hypnotize you and they will use mind control on you to get you to blow raspberries on their pink pink bellehs…..must blow raspberries…..

Ok… I just watched it agian and I’m in love with that white one that goes onto it’s back. The lil feeties… the flailing around and just lookin like it’s having the time of it’s young life.
Plus it looks like a teeny polar bear!! Awwwwww I can just smell all the puppy breath!

There’s local pet supply store hereabouts which does a radio commercial. It starts out, “Hey, does your dog have gas? What a question, huh?! But if your dog has gas and neighbors are complaining… blah blah blah buy our dog food.”

About kitty poots – we used to have one that pooted so badly we would run from the room gagging. He himself would jump and look angrily behind him, and then run around looking for “who done that?”. Then I read the cat food can. The second listed ingredient was Onion Salt. Sheesh. I’d poot too if my entire diet was full of onion salt. Changed the food (Friskies, btw), no more poots, everybody happy.

I just had an idea … You Guys R Silly came up with a lovely quote on dogs on her blog. (http://youguysrsilly.vox.com ) and I was thinking, maybe we should include a section on CO called “Quteable Quotes” with touching/ funny quotes regarding animals.

To begin with, here are two. The first one was posted by YouGuysRSilly on her blog.

1.”The reason that a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.” – Anonymous

And here’s mine, which I found in a book:

2.”Somehow, I never thought a heart that big would ever stop beating.” – Overheard on the passing away of a beloved dog.

What do you all think?

(Sorry if I momentarily ruined all the fun here. I’m just in a reflective mood today.)